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How are you going to pull off the incentive deal, because most offers of this type are non incentavizable. The advertisers are probally not gonna be happy about you giving the people Subway gift cards or even candy.


Besides that I do not see why this would not work great in some areas with the right offer. Credit reports may not be the right offer for each location. How about one of those Disney book clubs at a kiosk right outside of Barnes and Nobles?

Heck any of those HydroDerm offers right outside of Macy's Make up area would probally do ok.

The Gevalia Kaffe Program outside of starbucks.


You get the idea. The problem is trying it will be a monetary risk. But you know what they say. No Risk No Reward!

So who wants to take a risk??
 


- Get a Booth at a Mall with about 4 Laptops
- Hire two people to offer people free credit reports
- People fill the affiliate offer on the laptops
- Profit

Any thoughts? I've seen some really shitty booths at the mall and think this idea has more potential then what I've seen out there.

If you asked people to fill affiliate form in your laptops, you are not afriad of being accused by filling form by yourself or fraud, then losing commissions? Just curious.
 
Engima: Yeah, most malls are setup that you're paying just to trade there, and the larger shops are merely at a premium. Generally speaking, one shop is just as large as another, and the shops that seem larger actually have to store fronts, but have walled off the other... At least, that's how it's done in Westfield and Centro malls...

sealthf28: Most AM companies are pretty understanding if you call them up and mention that this is how you're going to be driving traffic.
I know that if one of my subs said they were doing something like this, not only would I applaud their ingenuity, I'd ask if they needed us to make some promotional material for whichver program of ours they were running.
 
how about if you gave people a gift to sign up for ebay accounts. Could work a lot better!
 
We did mall kiosks with my Satellite business. Worked OK, but the hardest part was getting people to stop and talk to the rep, plus getting the $10 an hour people to actually show the hell up for work.

I know how to make this happen very easily with credit reports if you want to give it a try then hit me with a PM.
 
That is not a bad idea, however getting ebay to approve the multi ip issuse would be next to impossible I would think.

1) Ebay has their collective head up their collective ass

2) Ebay leads for new users aren't paid out until they BUY something. This will happen when they are at home on their own IP.

3) Why the fuck did I have to bring numbers in to this?!
 
This is a pretty good idea, the mall rental is pretty damn expensive and flea market people are a strange breed. The flea markets around here are full of people like my mother that has no trust for anything over the internet. I would think it would be a hard sell.

As anyone ever tried handing out flyers or business cards for their aff site? Like dating or dieting offers.
 
Singles nights at clubs or church. It would be very hard to track though, I was just thinking out loud.

you could probably track it by the link used on the flyer:
datingsite.com/churchname.htm

having the church name in the url might add to it's legitimacy thus giving the subconscious impression the church was endorsing it or something
 
I'm sure it's been done. The real question is where and when would you do this to maximize effectiveness?
I'd say this would work best for travel and financial services actually... And best done from a large mall, near to banks/loan institutions or where all the travel agents are.

A guy I know does this in Chadstone & Southland in Melbourne.
All the banks are in one section, near the more upmarket clothing stores. He hangs around there and hands his cards out to people walking out of banks with a negative look on their faces.
His trick is to actually talk to the people, find out if they were just rejected for a loan, mention that he's from a finance company with lower interest than the banks (it is, just higher fees... nice swindle. I think he's a douche) and offer to buy them a coffee/lunch and talk about their situation.
I've watched him work actually. He's REALLY slick (aka charming), whips out a palmtop computer (less intimidating and businssy than a laptop) and runs his little program on it showing them some graphs and what not... the shows them a comparison graph of the interest on his thing.

Then, and this is his secret, he doesn't make them sign up to anything.
Just hands them his card, says that they can call him, or just sign up through the site.
So if he's spoken to 4-5 people a day, which is average for him, he's likely to get one actually sign up because he's gotten that whole trust thing going.

Anyway, he gets a $300 payout on conversions.
 
Bad idea, good concept....maybe something in the insurance niche or some other cpa would do much better. People are going to be very weary about giving there ssn and cc number to one of those dorks at the mall.
 
As anyone ever tried handing out flyers or business cards for their aff site? Like dating or dieting offers.

I've seen these small posters around the city I live in (30 mins from San Fran) that are for <cityname>singles.com.

I haven't checked the site but I imagine it's probably an affiliate.

The posters are placed in very high traffic areas for a couple weeks before being taken down.
 
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